Picture Book Navi will provide special support for "Book Santa 2024" by accepting donations for the activity, accepting book donations as an online bookstore, cooperating with announcements, and providing book classification data.
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(headquartered in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Hideyuki Kanegaki, CEO; hereinafter "Picture Book Navi"), operator of the picture book information and mail order site "Picture Book Navi," will participate in the "Book Santa" project, a social contribution project sponsored by NPO Charity Santa (located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Natsuki Seisuke, Representative Director) to send books to children. (located in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Natsuki Seisuke), a non-profit organization, and will participate in the project as a special cooperator.
What is Book Santa (NPO Charity Santa)?
With the slogan "Anyone can be Santa at a bookstore," this project, launched in 2017, is a collaboration between NPOs and bookstores nationwide.
This is an initiative to deliver books to children in various forms in cooperation with more than 300 support groups and child welfare facilities to children across Japan(*) who are currently living in difficult circumstances.
(*) Children in difficult circumstances due to various reasons (economic reasons, illness/hospitalization, bereavement of parents, disaster, etc.)
(1) Accept book donations as an online bookstore.
As of September 2024, 1,868 real bookstores are participating in Book Santa. In addition to this, for those who do not have a Book Santa bookstore nearby or for those who for some reason are unable to visit a bookstore, book donations will be accepted at the official Book Santa online bookstore and at Picture Book Navi.
(About books that can be sent)
The books listed in the online bookstore are based on the overall balance of Book Santa.
- Books in need from children and families.
- Books that are difficult to collect in real bookstores (e.g., books for elementary school students)
- Books recommended by Book Santa supporters and author Santas
These are comprehensively considered and replaced as appropriate.
*For books not listed
- Long selling and best selling books with numerous donations from real bookstores are not listed.
- Books that are out of print or hard to find due to low stock are not listed here, as we check the publisher's stock, etc.
Book Santa 2024
https://www.ehonnavi.net/shopping/category.asp?n=9141
How to send books from Picture Book Navi to BookSanta.
https://style.ehonnavi.net/ehon/2024/09/26_1187.html
(2) Donations for Book Santa activities will be accepted on the Picture Book Navi website.
There is a lack of funds to deliver the donated books to the children.
You can help bring books to children.
You can donate funds for Book Santa activities through Picture Book Navi.
https://style.ehonnavi.net/ehon/2024/09/25_1186.html
(3) Provide a database of books to Book Santa.
Provides data on the works to sort the many books that are donated to Book Santa.
(4) Cooperate in the announcement of Book Santa 2024.
We will conduct PR to make more people aware of Book Santa activities.
Book Santa 2024 official website
https://booksanta.charity-santa.com/
About Us
Company Name : Picture Book Navi Co.
Representative: Hideyuki Kanagaki, President and CEO
Location : Shinjuku Sumitomo Building 28F, 2-6-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-0228, Japan
Establishment : October 25, 2001
Capital : 100 million yen (100 million yen in capital reserve)
URL :https://corp.ehonnavi.net/
Business : Media, Commerce, Content, Learning
For inquiries regarding this matter, please contact
Public Relations, Picture Book Navi, Inc.
E-mail: press@ehonnavi.net
